Digital Measures (Online)
DIGITAL MEASURES COURSE RESPONSE ADMINISTRATION (ONLINE)
Overview
Institutional Assessment and Research and the Academic Computer Center coordinate Digital Measures Course Response.
All students enrolled in a course within Banner are invited to complete a course evaluation for that course through Digital Measures Course Response. Students receive an email invitation from Digital Measures Course Response, a reminder message every three days (unless all evaluations are completed) and a reminder message on the last day to complete the evaluations. Once a student completes her evaluations, her responses are stored by Digital Measures Course Response. When the evaluation period ends and reporting becomes available, the primary instructor can login to Digital Measures and retrieve reports of confidential, aggregated data for the course(s) they taught.
Best Practices
- If possible, instructors can schedule time in a computer lab or ask students to bring a mobile device to class to complete their evaluations. This will help improve response rates.
- Incentives can also be given to help improve response rates. The university has no policy on incentives at this time, and departments/faculty members may use incentives at their discretion.
- Instructors can login to Digital Measures Course Response during the open period to see what students have completed their evaluations. Please note that names are the only information displayed; instructors cannot see any type of feedback. Viewing respondents gives instructors an opportunity to discuss the importance of course evaluations and follow up with students.
- Institutional Assessment and Research works with Academic Technologies, the Campus Life Marketing Committee and Marketing and Communications to publicize the survey. Instructors and departments, however, can also distribute the survey link and encourage participation.
Timeline
According to the faculty handbook, the Student Rating of Classroom Instruction (i.e., course evaluation) is administered the first few weeks of April and November for each term. Due to logistics, dates will vary each semester, and faculty and staff will be notified of specific dates via email. Evaluations through Digital Measures Course Response will close before exams begin, and reports will not be available to faculty until after grades have been submitted. Digital Measures Course Response should be open ideally for at least ten days for end of term courses and at least five days for Block I/1st 8 week courses. Click here for the current semester course evaluation dates.
With each iteration of course evaluations, a "Reporting Available" date is determined. The "Reporting Available" date occurs after student grades have been submitted, and all results are provided in aggregate form to protect students' confidentiality. Faculty are notified that results are available via an email from Digital Measures. For instructions on how to view results and run reports, please click here.
Digital Measures Course Response Student Rating of Classroom Instruction Survey Instruments
Four instruments currently exist in Digital Measures Course Response. The chart below displays the available instruments and the types of courses to which they correspond:
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Instrument Name |
Course Type |
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Course Evaluation – University |
Face-to-face delivered courses |
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Course Evaluation – University, Distant Learning |
Online delivered courses |
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Course Evaluation – University, Writing in the Major (WIM) |
Courses identified as WIM by the QEP Director |
|
Course Evaluation – University, Midterm |
Any course (pilot spring 2012) |
New Feature Implementation
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Term |
New Features |
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Spring 2010 |
Pilot |
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Summer 2010 |
Course evaluations debut for summer courses |
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Fall 2010 |
Instrument for online delivered courses added |
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Spring 2011 |
EWC/Block I and Writing in the Major (WIM) courses receive separate evaluations |
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Summer 2011 |
Courses evaluated on 5-, 6-, 8- and 10-week cycles |
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Spring 2012 |
Midterm pilot |
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Fall 2012 |
Team-taught pilot |
